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A. T.- HEFLIN.

Cultivator,

" Patented Sept. 22, 1868.

7755a eases N. PEIERS, PHOTO-UTNOGRAPHER, WASNXNBTON n c ARGHABA-LD T. HEFLIN, OF MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent 1V 82,406, dated September 22, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN GULTIVATORS;

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;

Be it known that I, ARCHABALD T. HEFLIN, of Monmouth, iuthe county of Warren, and State of Illinois, have invented a new Mode of AttachingScrapei-s to Cultivators and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whi ch-- Figure 1 is a. perspective view of the improved implement, showing the scrap'ers arranged for scraping and thro ving earth and weeds from .the plants.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section, taken in a vertical plane through the implement.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thetwo figures.

This invention relates to improvements on implements which are designed for clearing youngplants of weeds, and alsofor throwing earth to plants.

The naturenf my invention consists in attaching the beams of two scrapers to a two-wheel elevated draughtframe, 'by means ofvertical and horizontal joints, which will allow an attendant behind the machine to guide and control the scrapers as he may require, and id combining with such features certain mcanssvhereby the draught of the team will be equally distributed upon both scrapers, while, at the same time, it will operate to keep the scrapers'down to their work, as will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand myinvention, I'will describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, A A represent two transporting-wheels, which are applied on'two short axles, a, that project laterally from the sides of" two vertical beams, B; These two beams B B arcconnectcd together, at their upper ends, by a horizontal cross-beam, B, to the middle of the length of which the draughtpole C is rigidly secured in any suitable manner. The rear end of the draughbpolc extends some distance in rear of the cross-beam B, to which it is attached, and is braced by means of rods y g and-i 2', which are secured to the vertical beams B B, as shown in fig. 1.

To the bottom side of the draught-pole C a double-tree, C, is pivoted, so as to vibrate freely, and to the ends of this double-tree, at equal distances from its pivot, rods It 7; are connected, by eyes and hooks.- These rods extend forward and downward, and are attached, by loose connections, to two linhs,-6 b, which are pivoted, at their lower ends, to short lovers, 0 c,'so as to vibrate iii-vertical planes. 7

The short lovers 0 e are pivoted, at 0', between the staples J and vertical beams B, to which said staples are rigidly secured. By having several extra holes through the staples (Z and beams B, the pivotal connections or 'fulcra of the short lcverscan be adjusted higher or lower, as may be required.

To the rear forked ends of the short lovers 0 c, the front cndsof' beams D D are pivoted, by means of vertical pins, e, which allow the rear ends of said'b'eams to vibrate laterally.

Each one of the beam'sD is provided with a handle, E, and twostandardm-F F, which latter are arranged on opposite sides of their beam, near the rear e'nd thereof, and embraced by rods, 3' which will resist all backward strain upon the standards.

One of the standards F of each beam D is arranged forward of the other standard, and to their lower ends a. scraping-plate, G, is suitably secured, which plate is oblique to the beam D, so as to scrape weeds and trash from the roots of plants toward the centre of the rows of plants, when arranged as shown in fig. 1. For the purpose of cartliing up or throwing earth about the roots oi'plants, t-hc scrapers, with their beams, are reversed, so thatthe scraping-bladeswill stand in opposite directions to those shown in the drawings.

At intermediate points between the extremities of the upright links 6 6, books J J are pivoted or loosely linked, to which hooks the'draught-chnins or ropes N are attached, for the purpose of causing the team to draw the machine by said links.

It will be seen, from tbe'abovc description, that, by means of the vertical pivot-connections e e and the horizontal pivot-connections c", the scrapers are-allowed to be moved laterally, obliquely, and vertically; and it will be seen that, by the draught-attachments, the tendency will be to draw down the front ends of the scraperrows of plants.

v 2 beams, and keep them down while working the machine, while, at the same time, thedraug ht of the team will be equally distributed upon both sides thereof and upon both scrapers.

It will also be seen that the beam 13 and draught-pole are raised so high from the ground as to pass freely over plants which may have attained considerable growth, the wheel; A A running in the furrows, between the Having described iny inventihn, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Ifatent, is 1." A two-wheeled elevated draught-frame, with h. draught-pole; C,,secured upon the cross-beam B of said frame A, sn'ivelling double-tree C, applied to the draught-pole, and connected to links I) b, in combination with levers c and scraper-carrying beams D D,-allcombin'ed, arranged, and opernting substantially asdescribcd.

2. The attaching-hooks J J, applied 'to links I), which are conneeted to the double-tron Gland to levcr'a c c, said parts .being employed in a machine constructed and operating substantially as described.

ARGHABALD. T. HEFLIN. Witnesses: A

ELISHA NYE, JOSEPH MOINTXRE. 

